Baekji placed his hand on the Demonic Advisor's shoulder and said in an affectionate voice, "I'm sorry for hitting you."
"It's nothing. The Young Lord's rod is a rod of love..."
As the Demonic Advisor answered with a proud expression, Baekji cut him off.
"Shut up. I'm not a pervert, so don't say such nonsense again."
"..."
"It's a strange but interesting plan. So... you're saying I'm a hidden bloodline of the So family."
It was much more persuasive than reincarnation.
But...
"There's a bit of a problem. I don't know the martial arts of the So family."
"Yes? Does that make sense?"
The Demonic Advisor made a dumbfounded expression.
"It's true."
Baekji had also lost his mories of martial arts when he had reincarnated. He just followed the movents that were ingrained in his body. Nevertheless, with his trendous internal energy that reached three 'jiazi' and having entered the 'natural realm', he could read the opponent's intentions and energy, so he did not feel the need to learn martial arts techniques.
"If you received the martial arts of the So family... they will ask you to prove it. Does the Demonic Advisor know the martial arts of the So family?"
"Ugh... how would I know that? I'm not from the So family."
"If I just know the characteristics of the martial arts, I can roughly imitate them."
"That won't work. The leaders of the twelve guardian families are so sharp-eyed. You'll be found out right away. You have to know at least the secret martial arts for them to acknowledge you."
"Then what should we do?"
The Demonic Advisor tore at his own hair with both hands.
"It was a perfect plan... is it going to be frustrated like this!"
Baekji soothed the Demonic Advisor.
"It's okay. As soon as we get to the Heavenly Mountains, we can just go to the So family's secret storehouse and learn a few things."
"The problem is getting into the secret storehouse."
"Are there any characteristics of the So family's martial arts?"
"The Four Divine Generals would know that. They saw the Young Lord fight from the side."
"That's enough for now. I'll take care of the rest. And there's soone I want to introduce."
When Baekji opened the door, Scholar Bing, who was waiting, bowed.
"Did you call?"
"Co in."
Scholar Bing, who ca inside, saw the Demonic Advisor and tilted his head. The Demonic Advisor also frowned.
The two instinctively recognized that the other was a strategist.
"What is this?"
The Demonic Advisor said, looking at the pale-faced Scholar Bing with a dismissive tone.
"He's Scholar Bing... the military advisor of the Four Shrines Heaven. Why don't you greet each other? This is Scholar Bi... he's currently my strategist."
Since Scholar Bing was wearing a human-skin mask, the movent of his complexion was not that great. He raised his hand with an expressionless face and gave a rough greeting.
The Demonic Advisor also reluctantly raised his hand and bowed.
"There's sothing the two of you have to do together. It's a matter of forming the 'Blood-Shattering Alliance', and since ti is short, you have to join forces."
"I can do that alone..."
The Demonic Advisor glanced at Scholar Bing with an indifferent look. He sohow didn't like the sickly and shabby-looking scholar.
Scholar Bing was also a person with a sharp tongue. 'Heum-heum', he let out a dry cough and then imdiately retorted, "A person whose abilities have not been verified will only be a hindrance to the work."
"What did you say?"
Although the Demonic Advisor flared up, Scholar Bing did not even pretend to listen and continued, "As you know... I am already a proven person. I will take care of it myself."
"Hey, I know your ability to ruin the Four Shrines Heaven. So why don't you stay back?"
"Hmph! I heard there was a troublemaker in the Demonic Cult's military advisory departnt... I don't know why he's here. Was he kicked out? You should be careful. It's better not to get close to a Demonic Cult mber, as they specialize in backstabbing."
"What? A Black Path with no roots... were you just talking about ?"
"Hmph! It seems you've been acting as a strategist by chance among the blockhead demonic people... I've never seen a proper strategist among the pale-faced brats like you."
The two, after exchanging a few words, imdiately started a war of nerves.
Tong! Tong!
Baekji alternately struck the heads of the two with his bamboo staff.
"Shut up. It's a task that's overwhelming even for the two of you. So cooperate with each other."
"How can there be a task that is overwhelming for , who sees the world at a glance? There can be no such thing."
"The demonic people will only be a hindrance. They are people who have no thoughts in the first place."
Thwack! Thwack!
The bamboo staff finally exploded on the heads of the Demonic Advisor and Scholar Bing.
"Shut your mouths!"
When Baekji glared with both eyes, they finally beca quiet.
"In two months, the Blood Sect will beco rampant on a large scale. Then a ss will break out. At that ti, the great sects and the noble families... hmm. Perhaps a power struggle could also occur in the Black Path of the Four Shrines Heaven or the Demonic Cult. They are brats called the 'Spirit Immortal Sect'..."
When Baekji told them the plan of the 'Blood Heaven's Descent', the Demonic Advisor and Scholar Bing were impressed.
"To play with the world... that person nad 'Zhong Yue' is truly amazing."
It seed they sohow wanted to try it themselves.
Aigoo. Strategists...
"We have to prepare a counterasure."
"There's nothing to prepare. The plan is already being pieced together in this head."
The Demonic Advisor said, shaking his fan.
"Hmph! I have already foreseen this situation and have been preparing for it."
Scholar Bing snorted.
It seems these two... need to be dealt with a little.
"Really? Tell the plan that has been pieced together."
The Demonic Advisor spoke first.
"Since that side is moving in the shadows, this side must also move secretly. We will use the Martial Alliance as a front to attract the enemy's attention and build up our strength... and the mont the enemy moves, we will subdue them in one breath."
"Hmph! It's all just fancy words, but there's no actual plan on how to do it. How are you going to build up your strength? How are you going to subdue the 'Spirit Immortal Sect' mbers of so many great sects and noble families in one breath? How pathetic. To call that a plan."
Scholar Bing retorted.
"Does Scholar Bing have another way?"
Scholar Bing said with an arrogant expression, "I have already foreseen that the Blood Sect would co out like this. In the past, we had to make a huge sacrifice because of the Blood Sect's forces that were hiding in each sect. So..."
Scholar Bing, in the middle of speaking, stopped, looked at the Demonic Advisor, and then shook his head.
"I can't trust that person. I would like to speak to the Honored One alone."
"It's okay."
"It's not okay for ..."
"Do you want to be hit and then talk?"
"Yes. I would rather be hit than ruin the grand plan that I have put my heart and soul into. I cannot trust a demonic person."
Scholar Bing's stubbornness was also formidable.
Baekji sighed.
"Then there's no choice. I can't be with the Four Shrines Heaven. Go..."
"Yes?"
Thwack!
The bamboo staff fell on Scholar Bing's head.
"Are you going to make say it twice? That brat is my strategist. You said you can't be with him, right? If the temple is not to your liking, the monk should leave. So take your lord and leave."
"What does that an? It was the Honored One who brought up the story of the 'Blood-Shattering Alliance'. And now you're telling to go?"
"Since you said you can't be with him, we have no choice but to part ways."
"Hmm... then there's no choice. But please make a promise. Give full authority. If that person sses up the work, I will behead him imdiately."
At Scholar Bing's words, the Demonic Advisor flared up.
"Is there a crazy brat like this? How dare you, , the Demonic Advisor, what? What did you say? Absolutely! Absolutely not! I must have full authority. There is a proper order even for cold water!"
He was so excited that he could not even speak properly. Scholar Bing fanned the flas.
"Proper order? How old are you? How many years have you been a strategist?"
"I've eaten my fill! How old are you?"
The fight between the two headed towards the end of childishness.
"This won't do."
Baekji opened the door and shouted, "Cheol-du!"
Tie Yantai appeared like the wind.
"Take these two and make them pliable."
"I understand."
Tie Yantai, without asking any questions, bowed, then grabbed the collars of the Demonic Advisor and Scholar Bing and disappeared.
* * *
Nangong Zhao and Tang Yunseol ca to visit.
"Thank you."
"For what?"
"I heard that the Alliance Leader has woken up."
"Why is the Chief Investigator thanking for that? You're not even the disciple of the Alliance Leader."
"That's enough."
Baekji said to Tang Yunseol, "You said the young master of the So family has co to his senses?"
"Yes. It's thanks to the Honored One."
Although Tang Yunseol was outwardly younger than Baekji, she treated him with respect. Baekji also treated Tang Yunseol with special care.
Was it because her na was the sa as Bi Yunseol, who had been his fiancée before his reincarnation? She didn't feel like a stranger.
"Yes. Is this young master doing well?"
"He's been focusing on his training these days."
"He should. This young master is too soft. He has to at least train to survive in this harsh world."
Baekji nodded his head and then asked Nangong Zhao, "What brings you here?"
"I've found a flaw in the 'Blood Demon Sword Sea'."
"Oho. That's amazing."
Baekji was impressed that Nangong Zhao had figured out the 'Blood Demon Sword Sea'. As expected, the Nangong family was a family with a strong foundation.
Baekji looked at Nangong Zhao, flinched, and then said, "Co to think of it, you've achieved the 'true realm'. Congratulations."
"Ugh... can you see that?"
"Of course. An underling doesn't know a superior, but a superior can recognize an underling at a glance, right?"
Nangong Zhao's pride was hurt.
"You're doing well. Just keep doing that."
Baekji, who was pleased, as if he had rembered sothing, stood up.
"Wait."
Baekji went out and ca back a mont later, then handed over a small bamboo box.
"I'll give this to the two of you as a gift."
Nangong Zhao and Tang Yunseol each received a bamboo box and opened it.
There was one black miraculous dicine in each.
"What is this?"
"It's good for the body. You'll see the effect as soon as you eat it."
Nangong Zhao picked up the miraculous dicine and slled it. The fragrance was very bitter, and the black color sohow felt ominous.
"Can I trust it? What's the na of the dicine?"
When he asked with suspicious eyes, Baekji flared up.
"If you don't want it, give it back. It's a miraculous dicine that I made by carefully decocting a hundred dicinal herbs."
Nangong Zhao quickly stored the miraculous dicine. He also knew that Baekji had entered the 'natural realm'.
If it was a miraculous dicine made by an elder of the 'natural realm'... he had to eat it unconditionally.
"What is the flaw in the 'Blood Demon Sword Sea'?"
"The martial arts of the Blood Sect seem to have the 'middle dantian' training as their core..."
Nangong Zhao explained what he had observed and figured out from Seomun So's condition and the 'Blood Demon Sword Sea' in the anti. Although it was content that Baekji already knew, he listened attentively as if it were interesting.
Then, at one point, his ears perked up.
"What did you say? Say it again."
"The blood poison is not just a poison. A person who is affected by the blood poison suffers the pain of their entire body's blood burning, and their soul and ethereal soul seem to beco one. If you take that, a person who has learned the 'Blood Blood Demonic Art' can see the sa effect as eating a miraculous dicine."
Tang Yunseol added and explained, "You could say that the blood poison is sothing that turns a person into a miraculous dicine."
"Ugh... they're vicious brats."
Baekji shook his head.
"Seomun So learned the 'Blood Blood Demonic Art', but he couldn't take living blood or get blood poison... so it seems he fell into cultivation deviation while burning his own soul... but unlike a normal cultivation deviation, his soul was damaged, so it will probably... be difficult for him to ever regain his senses."
Baekji had also seen Seomun So's condition. His soul had burned away, so he was no different from an animal.
'I put the Blood Demon's soul into him... so he must have regained so of his reason.'
Baekji asked Nangong Zhao, "How is Seomun So's condition?"
"That's really strange... he has regained so of his reason in the past few days. But... he sohow seems like a different person. I think it might be a phenonon like a 'final radiance'... I'll have to look into it more."
'Of course, it would be like that. Because the Blood Demon's soul went into him.'
But he could not tell the truth. Nangong Zhao and Tang Yunseol were Righteous Path to the bone. He didn't know how they would react if Baekji were the Young Lord of the Demonic Cult who used the 'Soul Weaving Art'.
"That's enough. There's sothing more urgent. The Alliance Leader has woken up and is going back to the Martial Alliance. I would appreciate it if the two of you would be by his side."
"......?"
"Chief Military Advisor Shangguan will ask you to go with him soon. The Alliance Leader is in a very dangerous situation right now. We still don't know who the brats who hard the masters of the Fengyun Pavilion are."
"..."
"The only people I can trust are the two of you. So eat that miraculous dicine I gave you earlier and focus on your training. I have to go sowhere for a month or two, so I can't be with you."
Nangong Zhao nodded his head and then asked again, "What is the na of the miraculous dicine?"
"Hmm... 'Blood Exhausting Pill'? No... it would be more correct to call it the 'Hundred Herb Collection Pill'."
(End of Chapter)
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